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    Open Streets Cape Town launches toolkit

    By on 18 July 2017 Rights to the city, Transport /Roads/ Rail | Cape Town, South Africa News

    Open Streets Cape Town (OSCT), a non-profit organisation working to create shared spaces that help bridge spatial and social divides in the city, launches an Open Streets toolkit. OSCT is based on the successful Ciclovía movement from Bogotá, which transforms streets into car-free public spaces every Sunday. This movement has spread to more than 400 cities … Continued

  • Seminar — Spatial transformation: what Cape Town can learn from Medellin

    By Admin on 12 September 2016 Planning, Urban Development | Cape Town News

    Upcoming seminar highlights lessons from Medellin’s Social Urbanism programme for Cape Town.

  • Cultivating Delft’s cultural capital

    By Megan Tennant on 21 March 2016 Art | Cape Town Feature

    Art in the spaces beyond Cape Town’s inner city art scene.

  • The Harare Academy of Inspiration: a new category of public space

    By Megan Tennant on 15 March 2016 Music, Performance Art | Cape Town Feature

    A month-long open “university” in a Cape Town township offers alternative ways of learning, challenging the city’s geographical strictures.

  • Going car-free on Bree

    By Admin on 13 January 2016 Culture, Transport, Urban design | Cape Town News

    Open Streets returns to Cape Town this coming weekend. On January 17 the public are invited to use the entire stretch of Bree Street to walk, play, exercise and express themselves freely.

  • An exhibition on cities through the lens of Cape Town

    By Admin on 10 October 2014 Photography, Urban design, Urban Development, Urban politics | Cape Town News

    The African Centre for Cities, a UCT research unit, is mounting a wide-ranging exhibition investigating the challenges and possibilities facing Cape Town. Entitled City Desired, the exhibition opens at 18h00 on 30 October in City Hall and runs until 10 December 2014. City Desired emerges against the backdrop of the World Design Capital (WDC) programme, … Continued

  • Weekly news roundup: August 29, 2014

    By Gemma Solés on 29 August 2014 Built Environment, Culture, Economy, Governance, Human Rights, Infrastructure, Sustainability | Abuja, Accra, African Cities, Bulawayo, Cape Town, Harare, Lagos, Lilongwe, Mombasa, Monrovia, Nairobi News

    Kickoff for Nairobi‘s e-pay parking. The pilot project for the cashless payment of parking fees in Nairobi was launched on Haile Selassie Avenue on Monday. Jambopay Chief Executive Officer, Danson Muchemi says the five-day exercise will see motorists pay for their parking using their mobile phones or through agents located strategically on the street. – CAPITAL … Continued

  • Cape Town community desperate as homes are demolished

    By GroundUp, Pharie Sefali and Adam Armstrong on 4 June 2014 Evictions, Human Rights, Slums | Cape Town Feature

    (Republished from GroundUp.org.za) Hundreds of people were left homeless at Nomzamo settlement in Strand on Tuesday. Shacks were smashed down while their owners watched. Sonwabile Sango came home from work on Monday to find his shack demolished and his possessions gone. “I came from work late yesterday afternoon and I just saw police and people … Continued

  • Weekly urban news roundup: May 9, 2014

    By Gemma Solés on 9 May 2014 | Abuja, African Cities, Bangui, Bulawayo, Cameroon, Cape Town, Central African Republic, Dar es Salaam, Douala, Ghana, Kenya, Lagos, Libya, Mombasa, Morocco, Nigeria, Rabat-Salé, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe Story

    World Economic Forum lands in Abuja No fewer than 13 heads of state and about 1,000 delegates participate in the World Economic Forum, WEF, on Africa in Abuja. Ms Elsie Kanza, Director, Head of Africa, said that Nigeria as the largest economy in Africa has a great role to play in the region to ensure positive economic … Continued

  • Weekly urban news round up: April 11, 2014

    By Gemma Solés on 11 April 2014 | African Cities, Cairo, Cape Town, Durban, Egypt, Kano, Kenya, Kigali, Lagos, Mogadishu, Morocco, Nairobi, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Tangier, Windhoek News

    Kigali National Genocide Memorial filled with grief Screams and wails punctured the crowd at Rwanda’s Amahoro stadium in Kigali on Monday, as people were overcome with grief while listening to a survivor of the 1994 genocide tell his story. – RFI. More than 2,000 Somalis arrested in Nairobi Kenyan police have been carrying out raids in Nairobi’s … Continued

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  • District Six Residential neighbourhood of District Six on the slopes of Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa - Cloete Breytenbach

    Views of District Six

    By James Clacherty on 9 June 2017 Built Environment, Heritage | Cape Town Culture

    James Clacherty shares contrasting views of District Six in Cape Town that highlight this urban wound at the heart of the city.

  • Gone but not forgotten: Cape Town’s thomassons

    By James Clacherty on 13 February 2017 Art | Cape Town Built Environment

    An exploration of the useless elements in Cape Town’s built environment and what they can tell us about our relationship with our cities.

  • Re-thinking the homeless narrative in Cape Town

    By James Clacherty on 2 February 2017 Social exclusion | Cape Town Human Rights

    The reality of homelessness in Cape Town is more complicated than the deficiency narrative reproduced so often by wealthy city residents and city officials, writes James Clacherty.

  • Cape Town eco-estates protect rich from reality of townships

    By Bruce Baigrie, Henrik Ernstson on 24 January 2017 Land, Sustainability, Urban Development | Cape Town Built Environment

    A stone’s throw from the working-class township of Masiphumelele, the Noordhoek mountains are being transformed into exclusive “eco-estates” which preserve apartheid geography just as the Group Areas Act did, write Bruce Baigrie and Henrik Ernstson.

  • Narrative and value articulation of contested green spaces in Cape Town, New York and London

    By Situated Ecologies on 1 September 2016 Urban design, Urban politics | Cape Town Built Environment

    Researchers look at how values of contested urban green spaces are articulated across cultural contexts in Cape Town, New York and London.

  • GxaGxa: where people know you and mosquitoes bite your children

    By CORC, GxaGxa Community Members, Shelby Lyons on 27 July 2016 Housing, Slums, Urban Development | Cape Town Built Environment

    What it’s like to live in GxaGxa settlement in Cape Town.

  • The barricaded shops of Delft South

    By Andrew Charman, Nava Derakhshani on 11 May 2016 Violence/ Crime | Cape Town, Delft Human Rights

    Shop-keepers in Delft South, an area with one of the highest crime rates in South Africa, are fortifying their stores with cages to protect themselves from criminals.

  • Opening the streets in Mitchells Plain

    By Emma Broadway on 11 April 2016 Heritage, Music, Performance Art, Public Art, Rights to the city | Cape Town Culture

    Open Streets activates public space in Mitchells Plain.

  • Video: building upward with Empower Shack

    By Future Cape Town, Lisa Novacek on 4 April 2016 Housing | Cape Town Built Environment

    How a two-story housing prototype aims to transform housing in Cape Town’s Khayelitsha.

  • Media as empowerment for youth in Mitchells Plain

    By Mercy Brown-Luthango, Safer Spaces on 9 February 2016 Film, Violence/ Crime | Cape Town Culture

    Media programme give young people tools to share their stories and experiences of violence in the Cape Flats.

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  • Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor

    By on 19 June 2019 Urban Geography | Cape Town, South Africa Job

    The University of Cape Town is one of the leading teaching and research institutions in Africa. In terms of subject rankings, Geography at UCT has been ranked among the top 50 universities in the 2018 QS world university rankings. The Department of Environmental and Geographical Science seeks to make an appointment at the Senior Lecturer … Continued

  • African Centre For Cities Peak Urban Postdoctoral Research Fellowship: Infrastructure/Human Settlements

    By on 8 February 2018 Built Environment, Housing, Urban Development | Cape Town Fellowship

    CALL FOR APPLICATIONS The African Centre for Cities invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship to support research associated with the PEAK Urban project. The successful candidate will become part of a new global cohort of urban researchers as part of the PEAK Urban project. The ideal candidate will have expertise in urban studies debates, a firm … Continued

  • African Centre For Cities Peak Urban Postdoctoral Research Fellowship: Urban Governance

    By on 8 February 2018 Governance | Cape Town Fellowship

    CALL FOR APPLICATIONS The ACC invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship to support research associated with the PEAK Urban project and complementary work on urban sustainability and governance. The successful candidate will become part of a new global cohort of urban researchers as part of the PEAK Urban project. The ideal candidate will have expertise … Continued

  • Call for Abstracts: Safety and Violence Initiative

    By on 12 September 2017 Violence/ Crime | Cape Town, South Africa Call for abstracts

    The Safety and Violence Initiative (SaVI) at the University of Cape Town is inviting abstracts for papers to be presented at a conference entitled Preventing Violence and Promoting Safety in Fragile and Insecure Environments.  The conference takes place from 27 to 28 November 2017 at the River Club in Observatory, Cape Town. The multidisciplinary conference … Continued

  • Fellowship: Urban Studies Postdoctoral Research

    By on 22 August 2017 Urban Geography | Cape Town, South Africa Fellowship

    SCOPE The postdoctoral fellowship is focussed on Urban Studies-Southern Urbanism. The candidate will have expertise in qualitative social research, with a firm grounding in social theory and interest in the Global South. Familiarity with (social) design, literature and pedagogy would have to be achieved during the course of the fellowship. The specific tasks of the … Continued

  • Job: Deputy Director, African Climate and Development Initiative (University of Cape Town)

    By Admin on 24 February 2017 Climate change | Cape Town Job

    The African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI) wishes to appoint a deputy director.

  • Community Organisation Resource Centre: Technical Coordinator

    By Admin on 13 April 2016 Built Environment, Employment | Cape Town call for applications, Job

    Employment opportunity for a technical coordinator to manage projects at community organisation resource centre.

  • ACDI Student Research Fund: Call for Proposals

    By Admin on 30 March 2016 Climate change, Urban Development | Cape Town call for applications, call for proposals, Funding

    Funding opportunity for post-grad research costs for students engaged in a climate change and development related projects.

  • Annual ACC seminar & PhD course on democratic practices

    By Admin on 4 March 2016 Urban politics | Cape Town call for applications, Seminar

    Call to save the date and apply for the annual ACC seminar & PhD course focusing on political and unequal geographies in the Global South.

  • LSE-UCT July School: Urban development in Africa

    By Admin on 4 March 2016 Urban Development | Cape Town, London call for applications

    Opportunity for students to register for a course which explores African urban development, engaging intensively with sites in Cape Town.

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  • Unequal citizenship in unequal cities: participatory urban governance in contemporary South Africa

    By Admin on 6 February 2017 Governance | Cape Town Journal Articale

    Article demonstrates how the spatial and temporal landscape of the city is not a neutral technical backdrop for participatory processes.

  • Informality in the SDGs

    By Hugo Halimi on 16 December 2016 Informality, Slums, Transport, Waste | Cape Town, Kisumu Papers

    Authors look at how informality is addressed in the SDGs, especially with regards to how it is measured.

  • Collective (in) efficacy, substance abuse and violence in ‘‘Freedom Park,’’ Cape Town

    By Admin on 27 September 2016 Violence/ Crime | Cape Town Journal Articles

    Using collective efficacy as a lens, the paper tries to understand high levels of violence and crime within a recently upgraded urban settlement in Cape Town.

  • The Poolitical City: “Seeing Sanitation” and Making the Urban Political in Cape Town

    By Admin on 29 July 2016 Urban politics, Water and sanitation | Cape Town Journal Articles

    Article charts Cape Town’s contemporary sanitation syndrome, its condition of crisis, and the remarkable politicization of toilets and human waste in the city’s townships and informal settlements.

  • Everyday African Urbanism: Food Lab

    By Admin on 12 July 2016 Food security | Cape Town

    How people living in households that generally earn a monthly income of R4,000 or less manage their food requirements.

  • Developing an appropriate land use methodology to promote spatially just, formal retail areas in developing countries: The case of the City of Cape Town, South Africa

    By Admin on 17 May 2016 Built Environment, Employment, Planning, Urban design | African Cities, Cape Town Journal Articles

    This paper initiates a long overdue conversation regarding the relationship between land use management and social justice within a developing world context, and in formal retail areas, and aims to set out ways in which land use management can be made more relevant.

  • The geography of supermarkets in Cape Town: Supermarket expansion and food access

    By Admin on 4 March 2016 Food security, Informality | Cape Town Journal Articles

    Focusing on food security and the nutrition transition, this paper presents a mapping of the location of supermarkets in Cape Town.

  • Ecological outcomes of civic and expert-led urban greening projects using indigenous plant species in Cape Town, South Africa

    By Admin on 3 March 2016 Environmental management, Sustainability, Urban design | Cape Town Journal Articles

    This paper explores the ecological outcomes of a series of indigenous plant greening interventions in Cape Town.

  • Reconstructing masculinity? A qualitative evaluation of the Stepping Stones and Creating Futures interventions in urban informal settlements in South Africa

    By Admin on 29 February 2016 Informality, Social exclusion | Cape Town Journal Articles

    This article is a study on interventions that target male masculinity in urban informal settlements in South Africa, and how these have improved livelihoods and encouraged positive social change.

  • Efficient informal trade: Theory and experimental evidence from the Cape Town taxi market

    By Admin on 26 February 2016 Informality, Productivity | Cape Town Journal Articles

    This article examines informal trade in regulated markets by using a randomized field experiment in the Cape Town taxi industry.

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